Deidre McCombs

Longtime Ninilchik resident, Deidre McCombs, 63, died Nov. 22, 2017, at her home in Ninilchik. Private services were held at her home.

Deidre was born Aug. 30, 1954 in Toledo, Ohio?She graduated high school and furthered her education by receiving a BA degree in teaching. She moved to Alaska in 1960, where she grew up in Eagle River?She taught at Squaw Harbor, Sand Point and was a tutor and sub at the Ninilchik School Kindergarten to 12th grade for many years?Deidre was also a waitress at the Inlet View Cafe.

The family wrote, "My wife and I met in Sand Point. She was a school teacher and I was a carpenter. We reunited in the summer in Ninilchik. Eventually we settled into employments and built a house together and married in 1984. Deidre had a gift shop in the village, selling original handmade items?We started a family and she loved and raised our girls Maureen and Leslie?In recent times, she spent summers at the Port of Kenai as office manager for Cooper River Seafoods."

She was preceded in death by her father, George Olson and grandson, Fisher Wilson.